maneuver
noun
a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
have maneuvered
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present perfectof maneuver.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Yet even though our two countries are inextricably bound together, and despite the existential nature of Canada’s reliance on the U.S. market, we have maneuvered ourselves into a self-defeating elbows-up mentality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
He is a prominent figure among loyalists and veterans of Bashir’s Islamist rule who have maneuvered to protect their interests and regained some leverage after a 2021 coup by the army and the RSF.
From Reuters ● Sep. 28, 2023
For example, SpaceX’s Starlink satellites have maneuvered over a thousand times to get out of the way of debris created by Russia’s intentional destruction of one of its own satellites in November 2021.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2023
It is not necessarily to Twitter’s discredit that it may have maneuvered its own internal rules to counteract this rhetorical brinksmanship.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2022
"They might have maneuvered for the very situation which has arisen—that is, if I am really worth anything to anybody."
From Nobody's Man by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
